Arbitration update: Capps, Perkins, Liriano, Young, Slowey

The Twins avoided arbitration with righthander Matt Capps, signing him to a one-year, $7.15 million contract, and lefthander Glen Perkins, signing him to a one-year, $700,000 contract.

Other potential arbitration cases include Delmon Young, Francisco Liriano and Kevin Slowey. The deadline for the sides to submit official offers was noon, and those figures will be released later this afternoon, unless these players reach agreement first.

Update: Here are the official arbitration figures:

Young: Team filed at $4.65 million. He filed at $6.25 million. (Midpoint is $5.45 million)

Liriano: Team filed at $3.6 million. He filed at $5.0 million. (Midpoint is $4.3 million)

Slowey: Team filed at $2.3 million. He filed at $3.1 million. (Midpoint is $2.7 million)

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Phil Miller covered three seasons of Twins baseball, but that was at a different ballpark for a different newspaper. Now Miller returns to the baseball beat after joining the Star Tribune as the Gopher football writer in 2010, and he won't miss the dingy dome for a minute. In addition to the Twins and Gophers, Miller covered the Utah Jazz and the NBA for six years at The Salt Lake Tribune.